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Overcoming Fear

This post has nothing to do with fitness unless you want to talk mental fitness. It has everything to do with growing as a person and having a huge breakthrough moment. For far too long, I have lived with a spirit of fear: fear of failure, fear of rejection, fear of inadequacy, fear of judgement, etc. Most don't know this, but I have been working with a life coach and she has made me aware of the fact that the negative thoughts are "mind crack", addicting thoughts that keep us in a pattern of self-doubt and make us immobile. She has constantly told me to go where I fear the most because that is where the answers lie. As cheesy as it sounds, it is 100% true.  For me, going back to my hometown has been a huge source of anxiety. I feared that if I went back, all my old wounds would resurface and I would revert to the person I have worked SO hard to overcome. Well, I recently reactivated my KY real estate license, so I can sell on both sides of the river and grow my

Once when I was little

I heard this song by James Morrison tonight & it's speaking to my soul for some reason. I rarely look back on my life, but I am feeling nostalgic and thinking the answers to my future might be hidden in my past. To grow, I am going to have to dig deeper and deal with some lingering beliefs left over from an abusive mother and brother. While I am doing that, here are the lyrics: I was the one who would always jump in first I didn’t think twice to look behind Got such a good feeling just from playing in the dirt Once when I was little We could build a rocket, fly to the moon Leave Tuesday morning, be back for noon And there wasn’t nothing, nothing that we couldn’t do Oh, once when I was little, once when I was little Yeah, I could dream more then I could believed more then That the world could only get better I could be free more then I could pretend more then That this life could only show me good times Once when I was little There was a time when I trusted